Dario Dester

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Dario Dester
2022-08-15 European Championships 2022 - Men's Decathlon - 100 Metres by Sandro Halank-049.jpg
Dester, 2022
Personal information
National team Italy
Born (2000-07-22) 22 July 2000 (age 24)
Gavardo, Italy
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Combined events
Club C.S. Carabinieri
Coached byPietro Frittolie
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Decathlon: 8235 (2024)
  • Heptathlon: 6076 (2021)

Dario Dester (born 22 July 2000) is an Italian decathlete, current national record holder of the decathlon outdoor and heptathlon indoor. [1]

Contents

Career

On August 16, 2022, at the Munich 2022 European Championships he beat the decathlon Italian record of Beniamino Poserina which had stood for 26 years. [2]

Statistics

National records

Personal Best Events

EventPerformanceVenueDatePoints
100 m10.65 Hypo-Meeting 31 May 2025993
Long jump7.61 m Arona, Tenerife 12 June 2021962
Shot put14.56 m Munich 15 August 2022763
High jump2.07 m Saronno 27 April 2019868
400 m47.70 Arona, Tenerife 4 June 2022924
110 m hs14.11 Modena 25 April 2022960
Discus throw43.04 m Munich 16 July 2022727
Pole vault4.95 m Saronno 29 May 2021895
Javelin throw57.24 m Munich 16 August 2022687
1500 m4:28.64 Grosseto 1 May 2022754

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenueRankEventPerformanceNotes
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń 7thHeptathlon 5835 pts
European U23 Championships Tallinn 4thHeptathlon 7935 pts NU23R
2022 European Championships Munich 6thDecathlon 8218 pts NR
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul Heptathlon DNF

National titles

Dester has won four national championship at individual senior level. [6] [7]

See also

References

  1. Dario Dester at World Athletics
  2. "Europei di Atletica, meraviglia Dester: è nuovo primato italiano nel decathlon". ilfaroonline.it (in Italian). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. "Dester, record italiano nell'eptathlon. E ora sogna le Olimpiadi" (in Italian). laprovinciacr.it. 22 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  4. "CAMPIONATI ITALIANI ASSOLUTI INDOOR Ancona, 20 e 21 febbraio 2021 - EPTATHLON UOMINI - RISULTATI" (in Italian). fidal.it. 21 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  5. "Men Decathlon - Event Summary". european-athletics.com. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. "CAMPIONATI ITALIANI ASSOLUTI INDOOR - Ancona, 20 e 21 febbraio 2021". fidal.it. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  7. "2021 Italian Athletics Championships - Results" (in Italian). fidal.it. 26 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.